Some of these numbers will hold great importance, become the pillars upon which love affairs, life-saving friendships, international diplomatic relations and drug addictions are built, while others will merely be conduits for fleeting calls and texts, vocal or written blue moonery that will soon evanesce into the matrix like all the other pointless digits that surround us in our lives.
(A charm quark is a heavier cousin of the up quark which, together with down quarks, makes up the ordinary protons and neutrons found in atomic nuclei; the down quark is not just an up antiquark, mind you that would be too simple).D0s and D0-bars decay into combinations of other fleeting particles called pions and kaons.
Dubbed charge-parity (CP) violation, the asymmetry was first seen in 1964 in the decays of fleeting particles called K mesons and their antimatter partners.
Even what scientists hope to find in the aftermath of those particle collisions sound fantastical: A fleeting particle called the Higgs boson, known ominously as the "god particle".
The dueling proposals continue a spirited competition that began in 1999, when PEP-II and KEKB started blasting out odd and fleeting particles called B mesons.
At the time, SLAC researchers were locked in a race with their counterparts at Japan's KEK laboratory in Tsukuba to collect as much data as possible on fleeting particles called B mesons.
His rivals have criticized him for failing to convene a meeting of the panel, using that fact to highlight what they call fleeting foreign policy experience.
Since the $145 price was fleeting, let's call the "true" decline from $100 to $40, which means the bill Americans pay for imported oil fell by about $300 billion dollars a year.
Everyone – protesters and reporters, movie actors and star-crossed lovers – is merely passing through, temporary cast-members in a play called Fleeting.
This, essentially, was the argument of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals when, last month, it prohibited the F.C.C. from fining television networks for broadcasting what it called "fleeting expletives".
